Celebrating, Connecting, and Supporting Women Entrepreneurs
by Latrice ColeWe all know it’s necessary for growth professionally or personally, but let’s be honest, it can be dreadful, intimidating, and downright awkward. What do you wear? Do you suck it up and wear the four-inch heels? How do you sell yourself? Do you humble-brag about your degree, or do you grit your teeth and smile until the very end? The most awkward part of networking is striking up the initial conversation with a complete stranger. But what if you didn’t have to? With just a ...
by Lucy Render-Kaplan | Featured Contributor Public Relations is vital for increasing your brand’s visibility. Not only can it help more people learn about your company and services, it can strategically speak directly to your target audience. A successful PR campaign generates media coverage, builds your status as a thought leader, helps develop trust and…
by Jennifer Longmore The difference between running an entrepreneurial business and a company is significant. When you’re in the entrepreneurial stage, you’re working predominantly with contractors, you may or may not have run a team before, and your systems are likely lacking or nonexistent. A company is run differently. The systems, policies, procedures, and protocols…
by Donna Amos | Featured Contributor There are tons of ways solopreneurs can make money online and offline, thanks to powerful digital technology, affordable mobile devices and the internet. And many of these micro-businesses can be started on a shoestring budget of under $1,000 – or even under $100! As long as your lead generation…
by Deborah Sweeney | Featured Contributor There are a lot of entity structures to pick from when you decide to incorporate a small business. It’s easy to struggle with finding the formation that feels like the right fit. Some entrepreneurs may feel so overwhelmed that they decide not to incorporate their startup. Keep calm and always…
by Dr. R. Kay Green | Featured Contributor Business owners ask how to make their employees more productive, more focused, or more loyal. Less frequently, they ask how to make their employees more excited. And this is a problem, because learning how to excite employees can often lead to employees that are more productive, focused,…
How the Move towards Better Business is Part of an Evolutionary Species Milestone by Nia Davies The Long-term health of free enterprise capitalism will depend on delivering profit with purpose. Companies will come to understand that this combination serves their self-interest, as well as their customers and employees… At times, as the historian and politician…
by Sarah Strunk For the past 5 years I have been trying to run my business with small toddlers at home, a deployed spouse, moving 4 times (yes 4 times in 5 years). I often felt like I was either rocking my business and failing my family or rocking my family life and letting my…
by Tegan Fitzpatrick Only 2.2% of all venture capital investments were given to women founded startups this past year. 2.2%. Let that number sink in. Are investors not confident in the return of investment for women entrepreneurs? Are women not pitching their businesses and products? This may be a part of the problem as only…
by Dr. R. Kay Green | Featured Contributor A common New Year’s Resolution, especially for businesses, is to “give back” to the community. But for as often as the concept comes up, few businesses actually follow through with it. Often, this is because the business has a base misunderstanding of what “giving back” is. There…
by Kerry Heaps | Featured Contributor If you want to secure more speaking engagements this year, make sure that you are not only providing great content that solves a problem, ensure that you are helping the meeting planner make the event as successful as possible. These three tips can be implemented with very little effort…
by Liesha Petrovich | Featured Contributor We can’t open Instagram without stumbling across someone calling themselves a guru. We see dozens of paid sponsorships with someone trying to promote their latest book, course or community. And we can’t watch the news without pundits telling us how we should think. Who are all these experts anyway?…
by Deborah Sweeney | Featured Contributor Entrepreneurship isn’t for the faint of heart. Starting a small business means that you get to pursue your passion, but must also make sacrifices, like careful budgeting and working more hours outside the traditional 9-5 schedule, to reach your goals. However, this investment of time and energy does pay off…